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Mr. Jack Ippel (Continued) - With regards to Site P, it looks <br />favorable for Site P to be selected; why create a problem some- <br />where else when you already have a problem in Ramsey. By approving <br />the expansion, is there any chance for the size of Site P being <br />limited to little less than half the area being utilized rather <br />than the entire section of Site P. <br /> <br />Mayor Gamec - It is possible. Commissioner Haas will be speaking <br />later and she could address this. <br /> <br />Mr. Jack Ippel - Where is the runoff from the landfill going to <br />go to? What happens to the leachate? <br /> <br />Mr. Cook - The plans I presented show three fresh water infiltration <br />basins. Leachate in the expansion area will be collected and <br />removed from the site; it is commonly disposed of at a sewage <br />treatment plant. <br /> <br />Mr. Jack Ippel - What is 80,000,000 gallons a percentage of? <br /> <br />Mr. Cook - Infiltration would be constructed over 31% of the site. <br />Infiltration eliminated would be 80,000,000 gallons over 20 years, <br />therefore the other 2/3's will produce a 160,000,000 gallons of <br />leachate over 20 years. When one looks at the amount of ground <br />water flow under the site, you will find that that is in the <br />millions also. <br /> <br />Mr. Jack Ippel - You are providing the protection to the North <br />where the ground water flow supposedly isn't going. What <br />protection is being planned for the East and the South? <br /> <br />Mr. Cook - Plans call for a sludge cap over the remainder of the <br />landfill site, an infiltration barrier on the North. The reason <br />it is placed on the North is because it is the upstream side; <br />it is just as important to protect the upstream side as the down- <br />stream side. <br /> <br />Mr. Jack Ippel - If you are going to haul it out of there, don't <br />you want to haul it out from where it's going? <br /> <br />Mr. Cook - Mr. Ippel is confusing the ground water with the <br />leachate that will be collected at the new site. Ground water <br />is not going to be collected as part of this proposal. There <br />are portions of the site where you cannot get under them to do <br />anything about; those are the portions of the site that you have <br />to look at in terms of what measures to reduce the amount of <br />leachate would be the best, what measures can you afford with <br />the amount of ground water flow, the amount of tenuation .and the <br />amount of dilution that will occur. We looked at it and decided <br />that the North side is the most practical place to put these <br />improvements on. <br /> <br />Mr. Jack Ippel - Council and Planning Commission are doing a <br />super job and do not envy the decision they have to make. <br /> <br />Council/P & Z <br />Public Hearing <br />Page 17 of 23 <br /> <br /> <br />